Thesaurus / impatient
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Scientists would leave the kids alone with the single marshmallow for 15 minutes, promising to double the prize as soon as they returned, and the question was whether the wee subjects would get impatient and scarf down the initial treat.
YOU GET BRAINWASHED WHENEVER YOU GO TO SLEEP (AND THAT’S A GOOD THING)POPSCI STAFFMARCH 17, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEFounded by Brit James Dyson in 1978, the Dyson bagless vacuum was born after the inventor grew impatient with the clogging bags of his regular vacuum.
BEST VACUUM FOR PET HAIR: GET A FUR-FREE HOME WITH THESE POWERFUL DUSTBUSTERSCHARLOTTE MARCUSFEBRUARY 16, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEIt ultimately took three weeks of haggling, hours of phone calls and a lot of “impatient” moments “for us to get things in place,” she said.
LACKING A LIFELINE: HOW A FEDERAL EFFORT TO HELP LOW-INCOME AMERICANS PAY THEIR PHONE BILLS FAILED AMID THE PANDEMICTONY ROMMFEBRUARY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe owners were impatient with the city’s struggles to buy the building.
HOW A VOLUNTEER HELPED GET THE CITY INTO ITS BIGGEST REAL ESTATE DEBACLELISA HALVERSTADTJANUARY 29, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGOPeople are in the streets because they are impatient now with change.
SHERRILYN IFILL, PRESIDENT OF THE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, ON THE BATTLE OVER RBG’S SEAT AND MAKING EVERY VOTE COUNTEBEN SHAPIROSEPTEMBER 27, 2020TIMEHe stared at his men, astonished and impatient at this strange disobedience.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThe carriage, waiting to convey them away, was already at the door, the impatient horses pawing the ground.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODAn impatient pupil who never learns anything thoroughly often disregards the rule about silent consonants.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)The socialist reads such criticism as the above with impatient approval.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKHe would at once become stubborn and ugly, because he is not used to our quick, nervous, impatient ways.
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WORDS RELATED TO IMPATIENT
- acquisitive
- agog
- ambitious
- antsy
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- champing at the bit
- covetous
- craving
- desiring
- desirous
- dying to
- earnest
- fervent
- fervid
- greedy
- gung ho
- hankering
- heated
- hot
- hot to trot
- hungry
- impatient
- intent
- keen
- longing
- pining
- rarin' to go
- ready and willing
- restive
- restless
- self-starting
- solicitous
- thirsty
- vehement
- voracious
- warmblooded
- wild
- wishful
- yearning
- zealous
- agitable
- alarmable
- demonstrative
- edgy
- emotional
- enthusiastic
- fidgety
- fierce
- fiery
- galvanic
- hasty
- high-strung
- hot-headed
- hot-tempered
- hysterical
- impatient
- impetuous
- impulsive
- inflammable
- intolerant
- irascible
- mercurial
- moody
- nervous
- neurotic
- overzealous
- passionate
- peevish
- quick
- quick-tempered
- rash
- reckless
- restless
- sensitive
- short fused
- skittish
- susceptible
- temperamental
- testy
- touchy
- uncontrolled
- uneasy
- vehement
- violent
- volatile
- volcanic
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- grabby
- grasping
- grudging
- hoggish
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- niggardly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- pennypinching
- penurious
- piggish
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
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